Respected veteran gives introspective on UK

In Jerry Tipton's book "Deja Blue," only Kentucky basketball is mentioned more than John Calipari, who coached the Wildcats for 15 years.

Tipton chronicled 14 of those seasons and in his 41 years covering UK athletics he covered Calipari longer than any other coach with the Wildcats.

Tipton was old school journalism. In his 51 total years as a sports reporter, Tipton probably never wrote anything first person. In fact, over numerous shared meals across the nation, he rarely talked about himself.

The book, available at Amazon.com and Acclaim Press, is just the way he was his entire career: Objective, honest and fair.

Over the past few years, reporters have lost a lot of access to players and coaches.

The more money the coaches made the more they circled the wagons and have closed off the media and fans alike.

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